[dilyevsky]

Imo for simple deployment colo with a major provider (equinix, coresite, etc) and redundant transit beats any cloud on reliability hands down

[jeffbee]

How do you know that there isn't a disaster plan under which Google routes requests for status.cloud.google.com to some other, non-Google host?

[dilyevsky]

I honestly have no idea, hope they do. My point is aws is not the only alternative (and not even the best one) for setting this up.